For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
SALMAN RUSHDIEYou can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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